The
International Corporation of Lost Structures (ICOLS)
was founded in November 2000 by Suzanne Treister, joined shortly
afterwards by Bronia Iwanczak as co-director.

ICOLS is an artist driven, international cross cultural collaborative
organisation whose growing number of members/contributors include
artists, writers, film makers, scientists, poets, anthropologists,
theorists, activists, art historians and practitioners from various
other disciplines.

ICOLS has a central website www.icols.org where projects
and activities are archived.

ICOLS
physical manifestations and live events include launches, publications,
installations, site specific projects and interventions, workshops
and other activities.

ICOLS
is intended to be a creative international space which utilises
as a structural device the dominant contemporary model of the corporate
structure. Within this structure the departments' titles; Department
of Global Disenchantment, Department of Revolutionary Nostalgia,
Department of Future Projections, Local Unit of Missing Links, Department
of Global Nostalgia, International Department of Local Aesthetics,
Department of Dislocated Memory, create contextsfor analyses of
history, the present day and projections for the future.

ICOLS
objectives are that through collaboration and members' involvement
in their own explorative developing projects, the ICOLS model will
become a fascinating conceptual and sometimes also humourous and
beautiful investigation into, and commentary upon, our current position/s
in relation to history, culture, nostalgia, communications and bio-technologies,
global capitalism, aesthetics, ethics, belief systems and revolution.

Please
select a department from the above menu to view the projects undertaken
by our ICOLS staff members. These projects will be continuously
added to and updated.

To
have your email address added to the icols mailing list please contact
us